Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eduard Hanslick

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Aaron Copland

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.

Deepak Chopra

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

Charles Sanders Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Charles Mingus

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Charles Bukowski

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Alfred Schnittke

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Andre Previn

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

Doc Severinsen

Now I'm having the time of my life being on the road with one of the world's all-time great big bands, and performing with symphonies. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Dave Brubeck

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Jane Byrne

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

Edward Abbey

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Atul Gawande

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Guy Laliberte

We are each but a quarter note in a grand symphony.

Glenn Gould

u201Che G-minor Symphony consists of eight remarkable measures surrounded by a half-hour of banality.

Florence Henderson

I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations.

Gerry Mulligan

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing

Harry Chapin

The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

Kurt Masur

And at the same time, I had my very first concert at the age of 16. I hadn't heard a symphony orchestra before, and I was so deeply impressed I said I have to be a conductor.

Kurt Masur

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

Gunther Schuller

Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style.

Olivia Newton-John

I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.

Mikhail Bakunin

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Neville Marriner

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

Neville Marriner

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

Michio Kaku

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

Fernando Pessoa

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.